Call it Not So O-high-o. Voters in the Buckeye State resoundingly rejected an attempt to legalize recreational marijuana by constitutional amendment on Tuesday. But unlike some other cases in which ballot referenda to liberalize drug laws were defeated at the polls, it’s a bit more difficult to draw broad conclusions in Ohio.

Tonight, Ohio voters rejected Issue 3, a referendum on recreational marijuana legalization. The ballot measure served as the only statewide marijuana measure to appear in 2015 and is the first defeat for marijuana advocates since Florida narrowly rejected medical marijuana last November. It is the first loss for a recreational legalization initiative since 2012.

While industrial hemp comes from the same plant (cannabis sativa) as marijuana, it contains only trace amounts of THC — the chemical that creates the “high” when hemp is smoked or ingested. Instead, industrial hemp can be grown for a variety of uses, including textiles and clothing, paper, paints, clothing, plastics, cosmetics, and many, many other products. 

In addition to the advocacy movement for legalizing weed, there is a movement to legalize industrial hemp — a crop that has the potential to have a serious positive impact on the U.S. economy. 

FunkSac CEO Garett Fortune will be on a plane from Cleveland tonight, probably landing in Denver around the time that Ohio counts up its votes and decides whether to legalize marijuana.

When he touches down, the king of high-tech marijuana bags will have a new round of venture capital funding in his bank account, a new partner in the form of rapper Snoop Dogg, and possibly a new state to conquer.

In fact, if Ohio’s legalization effort succeeds, Fortune will already be able to celebrate, if he chooses. Pot is already legal in Colorado, which is also a major market for Fortune’s business of selling child-proof and odor-proof bags.

Not that he’s sure about how he wants things to turn out in Ohio.

updated Nov. 3, 2015 at 4:29 p.m.

The latest developments in Ohio’s general election as voters decide issues including whether to legalize marijuana (all times EST):

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Issue 3: The proposed constitutional amendment would allow adults 21 and older to grow, possess and use pot while making it available for medical use. Home-growers would be limited to four flowering marijuana plants and 8 ounces of usable marijuana at a given time for personal use. Pot sold commercially would have to come from 10 authorized growing sites that are already spoken for.

Englewood's City Council postponed its decision on marijuana consumption clubs Monday night as it gathers more information and waits for the results of tonight's local election, in which four new council seats will be assigned.

DENVER – Marijuana products delivered to 176 stores in Colorado were recalled for allegedly containing pesticide residue.

Gaia's Gardens, a Denver-based marijuana-infused manufacturing facility, voluntarily recalled potentially unsafe marijuana edibles. According to Denver's Department of Environmental Health, samples of marijuana candy from Gaia's Gardens contained three pesticides that cannot legally be used to grow marijuana in Colorado.

According to the City and County of Denver, the health impact of consuming the pesticides is unknown. They say there are potential short-term and long-term health impacts. So far, there have been no reports of illness.

The Department of Environmental Health asks anyone with recalled products to throw them away or return them.

A Cleveland couple is fighting to regain custody of their newborn daughter following a magistrate's order to have her taken from her parents because the mother was found to have drunk marijuana-based tea to ease her labor pains.

Despite county family services officials recommending that the child remain at home with her parents, Magistrate Eleanore Hilow had baby Nova removed from Hollie Sanford and her husband and placed in the home of one of their relatives.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The only cannabis legalization-related question on any state ballot this year is in Ohio, where voters were deciding Tuesday whether to legalize marijuana for recreational and medical use in a single stroke.

If it passes, Ohio would become the fifth state to legalize recreational marijuana and would hand over exclusive rights in the state’s cannabis-growing business to a limited circle of private investors that include some famous names.

The proposed constitutional amendment, known as Issue 3, would allow adults 21 and older to grow, possess and use pot while making it available for medical use. Ohioans would be able to buy marijuana, pot-infused candies and other related products from potentially 1,100-plus retail stores.

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